Mono Culture
The films oscillate between the two big promises of salvation of our time: Religion and capitalism. Both work, because we have faith in them. The bigger the faith, the more powerful they become. But how long will it run smoothly, when will the fall from the sky come? And which possibilities lie with the individual to hold his/her ground – if that is what he/she wants.
The Fall (advance copy)
Factory workers report about their working and living conditions at Foxconn, world's largest electronic manufacture contractor and biggest supplier for Apple. Their working task is simplified to an extreme, repeating the same action for five thousand times a day. Working over hours is standard, social interactions are systematically forbidden, a life without work, fatigue and emptiness is almost impossible. There is no strength left for protest. Jumping of the factory's roof seems to be the only way out. The film interlocks these interviews with airplanes falling from the skies, which again are recycled for material to be used for mobile phones, computers and other electronic devices. The kinetic energy of aircrafts’ and workers’ falling seems to be constantly transformed into a horizontal force of global trading and shipping.
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 00:25:40
- Director: Chenyu Chen
- Production: Chen, Chenyu
- Photography: Chen, Chenyu / Tzu-Tung Lee
- Editing: Chen, Chenyu
- Music: Pi-Hsuan Hunag / Arp
- Sound: Jason Chen / Yuting Chiu / Ze Dong
- Languages: zh,en
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2015
- Website
- Europe Premiere
Material Conditions of Inner Spaces
The three lead characters of this absurdist slapstick musical are on a quest to find their inner spaces. They are trying to change the material conditions by social action. A bizarre excursion into a very special way of storytelling.
- Hongkong, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 00:15:29
- Director: Erkka Nissinen
- Production: Erkka Nissinen
- Photography: Erkka Nissinen
- Languages: en,fi
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
Freedom & Independence
Against the backdrop of an unfathomable megalopolis, in a story that follows the associative qualities of a dream logic, the protagonists quote from concepts of neo-liberal elitism, and a mix of religious delusions and hallucinations of the apocalypse. The film begins in a sacral space, where Randi, a figure that references Ayn Rand, transforms a parapsychological medium into two digital clouds and sends them on a journey through a megalopolis in full growth. There they materialize as two bodies, which go by the names of Mr. Freedom and Ms. Independence. In the following passage through a city in transformation that is increasingly shaped according to capitalist interests and where privatization swallows up the public, Mr. Freedom and Ms. Independence recite Christian-fundamentalist rhetoric and head towards the biblical apocalypse and doomsday. However, the supposed salvation is only the reunification into their original state as „the medium“ and their return to their uber mom Randi. The film ends in the post-mortem examination room of a morgue where Randi rules over a crowd of sick, half-dead, masked men.
- Deutschland
- 00:15:01
- Director: Bjørn Melhus
- Production: Bjørn Melhus
- Photography: Eike Zuleeg
- Editing: Bjørn Melhus
- Music: Max Schneider
- Sound: Max Schneider
- Languages: en
- Year: 2014
ES
Based on the power plan of the Protestant Bishop Macedo, the film develops a dystopian future of Brazil in the year of 2030, compiled from current found footage material.
- Deutschland
- 00:23:37
- Director: Alice Dalgalarrondo, Antonia Cattan
- Production: Alice Dalgalarrondo, Antonia Cattan
- Photography: Alice Dalgalarrondo, Antonia Cattan
- Editing: Alice Dalgalarrondo, Antonia Cattan
- Music: Alice Dalgalarrondo, Antonia Cattan
- Sound: Alice Dalgalarrondo, Antonia Cattan
- Languages: pt
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2015
- World Premiere
